Week 2 – Colourful

Colourful is a tricky yet probably necessary theme for someone who is always content with very little colour. If you know me, its clear I like more muted tones, or to be brutally honest, black 😉

It was a hot summers night, and I was driving home with the kids from dinner with their Nan and Pa. And there, like an oasis, on the horizon, was ‘colourful’. A beach side summer carnival, a massive tacky drawcard for anyone under 18. As I slowed I said to the kids, we’re stopping, but we’re not going in! Thankfully and bizarrely I got no argument, and then I remembered when you’re a kid, and you go on a family road trip, Dads won’t stop to look at anything. I’m assuming it’s quite universal! So my kids were just happy that Mum, was actually stopping at something ‘cool’.

Like a good little photographer I had my camera in the car, though I really really wish I’d had my tripod too, and the kids both happened to have a camera of sorts with them. We had a lovely time taking photos, and they were keen learners, which warmed the cockles of a mothers heart 🙂 just like that little bit of sunset that’s still visible. You should have seen it 10 minutes earlier 😉 just like the one that got away!

The Zoetrope, or "Wheel of Life," is an instructive Scientific Toy, illustrating in an attractive manner the persistence of an image on the retina of the eye; by revolving the cylinder by the hand, and looking through the openings, the images passing rapidly before the eye are blended, so as to give the figures the motions of life in the most natural manner.